atimmerman88 said:Didn't find anything via searching the thread. from those who've made this and aged and enjoyed it.... what volume did you bottle carb to? Amber ale looks like 2.25 - 2.75 does this shine with high, medium, or low fizz
Nompton said:Are y'all racking to a secondary, or just leaving it in the primary?
dogbar said:I've had this one on my to-brew list since last Christmas. Mashing in now. This recipe seems to cry out for some wood aging ...
Publius said:haha, atimmermam--great minds think alike, apparently. just saw the label you posted, I also did a Christmas Vacation-themed label. I'm not nearly as artistic as you though, so I just took an actual screen capture from the movie and used photoshop to render it to look like a painting. You probably wont be able to read the text on the right, but it's the quote that starts with "where do you think you're going? nobody's leaving, nobody's walking out on this good old fashioned family Christmas..."
...Despite the spices and alcohol content, grain -to-glass time is fairly short...
plankbr said:This is from the OP.
kirbfucius said:It doesn't look like it'll be too soon to be drinkable, but maybe not quite as good as if it aged a little longer.
plankbr said:This is from the OP.
Thank you all. I hope to brew this weekend.atimmerman88 said:I would agree. I'm OG was 1.083. Went 3 weeks in the primary which was redundant. It had dropped clean it 2 with a nice and large 3L wlp001 starter. Added spices at bottling....had a sample at 5 weeks in the bottle and it was super good, I think 6-7 weeks would be no problem with proper pitching and ferm temps
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